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 For many organizations, the challenge of gaining full visibility into all devices connected to their network goes beyond traditional routers, switches, and firewalls. Non-network devices—such as power controllers, printers, terminal servers and security cameras—are often left out of inventory reports, even though they can pose operational and security risks if unmanaged.This became a critical need for one of our large financial services customers. They required a way to inventory every device on their network, including thousands of non-network endpoints still accessible via SNMP. Their goal? Replace an existing NetBrain solution and consolidate into Forward Networks as their single source of truth.The result is the Endpoints feature—engineered to discover and report on any device Forward can authenticate to via CLI, SNMP, or API. This guide walks you through setting up SNMP Endpoints using real-world configurations and examples. With this workflow, you can generate a comprehensive in

 OverviewThis proof of concept shows how to build a self-healing network using Forward Enterprise's Network Query Engine (NQE) alongside a lightweight orchestration platform. The idea was inspired by a Forward Networks customer already running this pattern in production.The demo network is small (nine devices across three vendors), but the pattern scales to much larger environments. Two NQE verification checks watch the network continuously:NTP server check: flags any device whose configured NTP servers don't match the approved list (with per-device-type exceptions, since some devices resolve DNS names to IPs automatically in their config). Interface description check: flags any interface missing a description.When a check fails, Forward Enterprise's ServiceNow integration automatically opens an incident. A custom orchestration platform then picks up that incident, generates the fix using data pulled straight from Forward's NQE queries, waits for an engineer to approve it, pushes the c

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